Scholars from U.s., Israel and Canada Participate in Colloquia on Jewry

Distinguished scholars from the U.S., Canada and Israel have been participating in academic colloquia on contemporary Jewry, at the Carnegie Endowment International Center. These seminars, which conclude tonight, are part of the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and coincide with the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Institute’s International Committee, according to Philip M. Klutznick, of Chicago, chairman of the International Committee. Professor Moshe Davis, head of the University’s Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and research professor in American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, said, “The Conference encompassed three main fields of academic endeavor: cross-fertilization of ideas among scholars of different disciplines; development of collaboration projects between faculty and graduate students; and the special role of the Institute in Jerusalem in the training of students of contemporary Jewish life and institutions on the expanding campus in the open society, and particularly in the United States.

Speakers and topics at the seminars that began Saturday were: Professor Davis on America and the Holy Land; Dr. Yehuda Bauer of the Hebrew University, on The Western World and the Period of the Holocaust; Professor David Sidorsky, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University will chair the seminar on The Interpretation and Expression of Jewish Experience in Modern Times; and a lecture on World Jewry Faces the Seventies, by the eminent philosopher Professor Nathan Rotenstreich of the Hebrew University. Professor Rotenstreich is a member of the International Institute of Philosophy and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Other participants included Avra-ham Harman, president of the Hebrew University and former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., who is coming from Jerusalem for the express purpose of participating in the Conference; and Samuel Roth-berg, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and chairman of the University’s Board of Governors. The Office of Academic Affairs of the American Friends of the Hebrew University coordinated the Conference.